Young Sikhs in a Global World: Negotiating Traditions, Identities and Authorities

Knut A. Jacobsen,Kristina Myrvold

Young Sikhs in a Global World: Negotiating Traditions, Identities and Authorities
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 March 2017
Pages
310
ISBN
9781138053502

Young Sikhs in a Global World: Negotiating Traditions, Identities and Authorities

Knut A. Jacobsen,Kristina Myrvold

In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and considers how they interpret, shape and negotiate religious identities, traditions, and authority on an individual and collective level. With a particular focus on the experiences of second generation Sikhs as they interact with various people in different social fields and cultural contexts, the book is constructed around three parts: ‘family and home’, ‘public display and gender’, and ‘reflexivity and translations’. New scholarly voices and established academics present qualitative research and ethnographic fieldwork and analyse how young Sikhs try to solve social, intellectual and psychological tensions between the family and the expectations of the majority society, between Punjabi culture and religious values.

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